Date:         Wed, 7 Jan 1998 05:56:51 -0500
From: Words from the Monastery <jackechs@EROLS.COM>
Subject:      [WRITERS] SUB: VDC: Entirety (Poem)

The 1998 WRITERs' Valentine's Day Contest

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into the contest.

*****

Entirety.....

We were,
            yet
I knew
you wouldn't
stay the longest day.

You were the genesis
and the terminus, never liking
the middle of anything, lest

the "are" of us, or
the repetitive patterns
of here and now; only
kaleidoscopes of tomorrows, forever
changing shape, not to be
remembered or depended upon.  So

I left,
as you stopped to change
the reels of our lives.   Now

you sit holding our faded images
                                    at arm's length
squinting,
wishing,
           --for the middle--